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IJE Advance Access originally published online on August 16, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(5):1230-1232; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl135
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Agent Orange and birth defects in Vietnam

Arnold Schecter1,* and John D Constable2

1 University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas Campus, Dallas, TX, USA
2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

* Corresponding author. E-mail: Arnold.Schecter@UTSouthwestern.edu

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The subject of Ngo et al.'s review1 has been in the news since the 1960s: has exposure to Agent Orange sprayed in Vietnam between 1962 and 1971, or its dioxin contaminant 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (or TCDD), resulted in an increased incidence of congenital malformations in Vietnam? Since 1983 there have been a number of Vietnamese conference presentations, which support the belief that Agent Orange exposure is linked to birth defects in Vietnam.2,3 However committee Reports of the US Institute of Medicine of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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